One of the less glamorous but increasingly important legal developments is not a ruling, verdict, or settlement at all: it is the difficulty of verifying what actually counts as “today’s” top legal news in a fragmented, access-restricted media environment.

In this instance, the available reporting pointed to several significant U.S. legal stories circulating in recent days, including a major federal-court…
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We welcome back Brad Blickstein, CEO at Blickstein Group, to discuss how private equity principles may provide law firms with an alternative approach to profitability, governance, and even long-term growth. Blickstein’s new book, WWPED: What Would Private Equity Do? was written to walk firms through how treating topics like pricing, technology, talent, and client relationships as part of…
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A federal appeals court has refused to let the Trump administration implement an executive order affecting mail-in voting while the case moves forward, leaving in place a district court ruling that found the challenged action likely exceeded presidential authority. The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit preserves a preliminary injunction entered by U.S. District Judge…
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has voided a proposed settlement between Donald Trump and the IRS, concluding that the agreement was tainted by an improper effort to leverage a massive damages suit for personal benefit rather than a legitimate litigation resolution. In the same ruling, the court referred lawyers on both sides to disciplinary authorities, turning what might have…
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A federal judge has issued a striking rebuke in litigation involving President Donald Trump and the IRS, concluding that the lawsuit was pursued for an improper purpose and referring lawyers involved for possible disciplinary review. Although the underlying case had already been dismissed and a proposed settlement blocked, the opinion carries consequences far beyond this dispute.

According to the ruling…
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Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00418 on July 30, 2026. At this stage, the publicly available docket information identifies Google as the petitioner, but the filing summary does not yet provide the full patent details or the patent owner name in the case caption. Even so, the…
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A new inter partes review, IPR2026-00408, was filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on July 28, 2026, under the caption Zhuhai CosMX Battery Co., Ltd. For patent practitioners tracking battery-sector disputes and PTAB filing trends, this is a proceeding worth watching as the record develops.

At this early stage, the publicly available docket information identifies the petitioner…
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When I ran across a recent study by the Blickstein Group of COOs in law firms I wondered if things had changed from the days when equity partners pretty much decided everything. If they had COOs, too often they ignored them or treated them as 2nd class citizens. After reading the study, it’s clear that while the status of COOs…
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A federal judge has reportedly voided a settlement involving the IRS and former President Donald Trump, a ruling that could have consequences well beyond the parties to the agreement. At a high level, the decision appears to turn on whether the settlement was lawfully structured and whether the government actors involved had the authority to bind the IRS in the…
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a significant state constitutional ruling, unanimously holding that Article I, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution protects private landowners from warrantless searches of posted private property. In doing so, the court rejected the federal “open fields” doctrine as a matter of Pennsylvania law, marking an important divergence from federal search-and-seizure doctrine.

The “open fields”…
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A Manhattan federal judge allowed Reddit, represented by Bartlit Beck and Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch, to proceed with core DMCA claims against SerpApi, represented by Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and Perplexity, represented by Keker, Van Nest & Peters and N. Read & Co., over alleged circumvention of Google’s anti-bot protections to obtain Reddit content at scale.
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Johnson & Johnson has announced a proposed $5.5 billion global resolution aimed at settling tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer, a major development in one of the country’s most closely watched mass torts. The deal is significant not only for its size, but for what it suggests about the future of talc litigation…
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